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Great fighting game from Sochi

8 April 2008 11:01 PM | Last modified: 8:35

Today we focus on one specific game from the Russian Team Championship (Volokitin-Movsesian), where the Ural team from Ekaterinenburg is leading with ten points out of six matches.

Results so far:

Round 1: 2 April 2008                   Round 2: 3 April 2008
SHSM          - 64              3-3     SHSM          - TPS             4-2
TPN-Saransk   - South Ural      4-2     South Ural    - FINEK          2½-3½
FINEK         - Shatar         2½-3½    Shatar        - Spacio          3-3
Spacio        - Ural            2-4     Ural          - Economist-2    4½-1½
Economist-2   - Economist-1     2-4     Economist-1   - Tomsk-400       4-2
Tomsk-400     - Polytechnic    2½-3½    64            - Polytechnic     3-3

Round 3: 4 April 2008                   Round 4: 5 April 2008
FINEK         - SHSM           3½-2½    Ural          - Polytechnic     4-2
ТПС           - 64              3-3     64            - Economist-1    3½-2½
Spacio        - South Ural     3½-2½    TPN           - FINEK           3-3
Economist-2   - Shatar          3-3     Shatar        - Tomsk-400      3½-2½
Tomsk-400     - Ural            2-4     SHSM          - Spacio          3-3
Polytechnic   - Economist-1    2½-3½    South Ural    - Economist-2    2½-3½

Round 5: 6 April 2008                   Round 6: 7 April 2008
Economist-1   - Ural           2½-3½    64            - Ural           3½-2½
Polytechnic   - Shatar         2½-3½    Shatar        - Economist-1    2½-3½
FINEK         - 64             4½-1½    FINEK         - Spacio          3-3
Spacio        - TPS            2½-3½    SHSM          - Tomsk-400      2½-3½
Economist-2   - SHSM            2-4     TPN           - Economist-2     4-2
Tomsk-400     - South Ural      4-2     South Ural    - Polytechnic     4-2

Who were those players again? Here’s the line-up of all teams one more time:

Russian Team Ch Round 6 Standings

1 Ural Yekaterinburg 10 22.5
2-5 Finek Gazprom Sankt Petersburg 8 20.0
2-5 Economist 1 Saratov 8 20.0
2-5 TPS Saransk Saransk 8 19.5
2-5 Shatar Buryatia   8 19.0
6 64 Moscow 7 17.5
7 SHSM Moscow 6 19.0
8 Spasio-Swiss Moscow 5 17.0
9 Tomsk-400 Tomsk 4 16.5
10-11 Politekhnik Nizhny Tagil 3 15.5
10-11 Economist 2 Saratov 3 14.0
12 South Ural Chelyabinsk 2 15.5

Thus far, the Chinese players Wang Hao and Ni Hua and Corus B winner Sergei Movsesian are doing well. All three have a score of 4.5 out of 6. Percentually speaking, Vladimir Malakhov (4 / 5), Alexander Motylev (3,5 / 4) and Alexander Morozevich (3 / 3) are doing even better.

Not in great form are Alexei Kornev (0 / 3), Evgeny Bareev (0,5 / 3) and especially Ian Nepomniachtchi (0,5 / 5 4), but also Pavel Tregubov (1 / 5) and Zahar Efimenko (1 / 5). Anatoli Karpov has 0,5 / 3 and his team mate Viktor Korchnoi 1,5 / 5.

Here’s a very attractive game from the fourth round:

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Written by peter | Filed under Coverstory, League, Tournaments 

Comments

5 Responses to “Great fighting game from Sochi”

  1. Tchaz on 9 April 2008 8:10 AM

    >Ian Nepomniachtchi (0,5 / 5)

    It’s .5/4, he didn’t play rounds 3 and 6.

  2. MichielB on 9 April 2008 9:47 AM

    Tijdens de partij snapte ik niet waarom geen 61. .. Dxb3 werd gespeeld. En nu nog steeds niet…

  3. peter on 9 April 2008 9:53 AM

    Klopt MichielB, prima zet. Het aparte is alleen dat daar …a4 drie zetten eerder tot mat leidt.

  4. ~~~~ on 9 April 2008 11:12 AM

    Thank you for annotating that game!

  5. Rob Brown on 9 April 2008 5:54 PM

    At move 80 the tablebases show that their are no fewer than 17 winning moves the two best of which are Qb7 and Qd6, unfortunately Qa3 isn’t one of them.

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